A Handsome Young Lady and her lovely Song

[karl]

Although this is a French Song sung by a handsome young Turkish lady, non-the-less is music to the ears.





For those a bit weak in French, the lyrics in English as follows:


Give me a suite at the Ritz, I don't want it
Jewelry from Chanel, I don't want it
Give me a limousine, what would I do with it?
Offer me staff, what would I do with it?
A mansion in Neuchâtel is not for me
Offer me the Eiffel Tower, what would I do with it?
I want love, joy, good mood
It's not your money that will make me happy
Me, I want to die hand on heart
Let's discover my freedom together
So forget all your shots
Welcome to my reality
I'm tired of your good manners, it's too much for me
I eat with my hands and I'm like that
I speak loudly and I am frank, excuse me
No more hypocrisy, I'm breaking from there
I'm tired of tongues of wood, look at me
In any case, I do not blame you.
And I'm like that, I'm like that
I want love, joy, good mood
It's not your money that will make me happy
Me, I want to die hand on heart
Let's discover my freedom together
So forget all your shots
Welcome to my reality
I want love, joy, good mood
It's not your money that will make me happy
Me, I want to die hand on heart
Let's discover my freedom together
So forget all your shots
Welcome to my reality
I want love, joy, good mood
It's not your money that will make me happy
Me, I want to die hand on heart
Let's discover my freedom together
So forget all your shots
Welcome to my reality


Presenter
Karl

[pieter]

Karl,

This is a very nice song, by a beautiful young Turkish singer. I live in a city with a large Turkish and Turkish Kurd community. I didn't realise that they have good singers and musicians as well. I know their restaurants, Snack bars, textile companies, travel agencies, bakeries, grocery stores, butchers, super markets, mosque and coffee houses and bars, food and wine. Yes, Turkey was a secular country with wine farms and beers. Many Turks are stil secular, for instance the secular West Turkish city of Izmir. And I had Turkish female and male colleagues. My favourite Snack Bar where I get my Shawarma dish, Hamburgers, or Dutch style fries is a Turkish guy and an Arsenal fan, and a father to many kids in the neighbourhood, Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan ones. He is a good guy, like a character in an American movie with good and bad guys.

Pieter

[pieter]

The original song



Zaz (singer)



Isabelle Geffroy (born 1 May 1980), known professionally as Zaz, is a French singer and songwriter who mixes jazz, French variety, soul and acoustic. She is known for her single "Je veux", taken from her self-titled debut album, released on 10 May 2010.[2] Worldwide Zaz has sold over 5 million albums, including 2 million outside France.

Early life

Zaz was born in Tours, France. Her mother was a Spanish teacher, and her father worked for an electric company. In 1985, she entered the Conservatoire de Tours with her sister and her brother, attending courses from the ages of 6 to 11. She studied music theory, specifically the violin, piano, guitar, and choral singing. In 1994, she moved to Bordeaux. In 1995, she took singing lessons and played sports for a year in Bordeaux. In 2000, she won a scholarship from the regional council, which allowed her to join a school of modern music, the CIAM (Centre for Musical Activities and Information) of Bordeaux. Her musical influences included 'Four Seasons' by Vivaldi, jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, and other singers such as Enrico Macias, Bobby McFerrin, and Richard Bona, as well as African, Latin, and Cuban rhythms. In 2006, she moved to Paris.



Career

In 2001, she started her singing career in the blues band "Fifty Fingers". She sang in musical groups in Angoulême, especially in a jazz quintet. She became one of the four singers of Izar-Adatz (Basque for "Shooting Star"), a variety band which consisted of sixteen people with whom she toured for two years, especially in the Midi-Pyrenees and the Basque Country. She worked in the studio as a backing singer in Toulouse and performed with many singers, including Maeso, Art Mengo, Vladimir Max, Jean-Pierre Mader, and Serge Guerao.

In 2011, Zaz won an EBBA Award. Every year the European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA) recognize the success of ten emerging artists or groups who reached audiences outside their own countries with their first internationally released album in the past year.


Zaz performing with Benoit Simon at the TFF Rudolstadt festival in 2011, a German folk, roots and world music festival in Rudolstadt in Thuringia

In May 2010, French magazine Télérama announced: "Rumor has swelled in recent weeks: Zaz is an extraordinary voice, and she will be the revelation of the summer!". On 10 May 2010, Zaz released her first album. It contains songs she wrote ("Trop sensible") and co-composed ("Les passants", "Le long de la route", "Prends garde à ta langue", "J'aime à nouveau", "Ni oui ni non"). Kerredine Soltani produced the album on the label "Play On" and wrote and composed the hit single "Je veux". The pop singer Raphaël Haroche wrote her songs "Éblouie par la nuit", "Port Coton" and "La fée". In 2010, she signed a contract for her tours with Caramba and publisher Sony ATV. She was invited to make several television appearances (such as Taratata or Chabada) and was featured in several programs on the radio. On Sunday 6 October 2013, Zaz appeared on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show in London and sang "Je veux" live.

Zaz then toured France (Paris, La Rochelle, Montauban, Saint-Ouen, Chateauroux, Landerneau, Fécamp...), performed at the Francofolies of Montreal (Canada), and sang in Monthey (Switzerland), Brussels, Berlin, and Milan. In autumn Zaz topped the charts in Belgium, Switzerland, and Austria. Matthieu Baligand, her manager and producer at Caramba Entertainment, explained to Libération: "There's a lot about her right now and people want to see her tour... But despite the demand, it seems preferable for her to begin touring in fifty small places, which will make her more credible. Zaz is a popular, intuitive artist, who is familiar with music, who can sing, but doing a quality show is something else (...)." In November 2010, the debut album Zaz became double platinum and she was awarded "Revelation Song" by the Académie Charles Cros. Zaz also won the European Border Breakers Award: she was named the French artist most played abroad in 2010. According to a survey published by L'Internaute, Zaz was the most popular French singer in the 2010 ranking.

She is also featured on the song "Cœur Volant" for the soundtrack of the 2011 film, Hugo. Her live CD and DVD Zaz live tour Sans Tsu Tsou was revealed.

Her song "Eblouie Par La Nuit" was featured in the 2013 American neo-noir crime thriller, "Dead Man Down".

In 2012, Zaz went on tour and held concerts in various countries around the world including Japan, Canada, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Slovenia, Czech Republic (Colours of Ostrava), Croatia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Turkey, among other countries.

With her album Paris she won the 2015 Echo award for best international female rock/pop artist.

In 2016, Zaz was invited to perform in Zacatecas City, Mexico as part of the Festival Cultural Zacatecas.


Zaz (Paris Tour) in Brest in 2016. Brest is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany (Bretagne) in France.

In September 2018, Zaz released "Qué vendrá", the first track from an upcoming album titled Effet miroir ("Mirror Effect"). The track's title and chorus are in Spanish.

In 2019 Zaz took a career break in order to, "look after myself...There has to be a balance because it's Isa who feeds Zaz, not Zaz who feeds Isa." In October 2021 Zaz released her fifth studio album, Isa.

Philanthropy

In 2011, Zaz joined the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble.

Zaz created the project Zazimut to "develop and promote projects for a society more respectful of life in all its forms". Since 2017 Zazimut has been one of the joint organisers of the annual Crussol Festival which aims to "raise awareness of building together a more sustainable, happy and supportive society."


Zaz performing at the Royal Albert Hall, London on 31 March 2022

[karl]

Pieter

This was very good of you with such nice contributions and of Zaz. Once to hear, was once again to remember her but was not aware of as the artist of origin.

Karl

[pieter]

Behind the stage



Karl,

This shows the Western, European, secular side of Turkey, many guys don't know. She is a gifted singer whom can sing Turkish, French, Spanish and Portuguese songs.

Cheers,
Pieter